Monday, January 17, 2011

Transformation 2011 - Day 15

Today I woke up and started with a handful of cashews.

I didn’t have my breakfast right away, which is something I like to do. I feel like since I haven’t eaten since the night before that getting food in me is a priority. unless I’m going to work out first thing in the morning, in which case, I’ll probably just have a small snack or a glass of chia seed gel.

But finally, when I did make my breakfast, I made

two fried eggs

a large helping of mixed kale and beet greens sauteed with olive oil and cayenne pepper

and half an avocado.

Then I started my weekly “Creating The Healthy Kitchen” ritual like I demonstrated in the video from Day 9.

But today, I baked three sweet potatoes, boiled two bunches of beets, cooked up a pot of black beans, and roasted a whole chicken.

So, by three this afternoon, my refrigerator was stocked with food that’s quick and healthy and delicious.

I quickly had to put all of the meat outside in the freezing cold and put my cooked chicken in tupperware, inside a big pan surrounded by blue ice to keep it until I can eat it in the morning. I had also stocked up and had two and a half large cups of Fage yogurt left which I’ll have to eat pretty quickly, now. I put it in the freezer, which is slowly dropping to the temperature of a refrigerator.

Then I did my moderate workout, which I thought I had set my camera to record, but when I was finished, I saw that it hadn’t been recording. I wanted to record parts of it, because I thought maybe it would be interesting to compare how my technique has improved since earlier this month. I guess I’m not having a great day with my appliances, today.

For dinner I had the rest of my radicchio, chick pea, and cucumber salad, black beans, sweet potato and a leg and thigh from the roasted chicken. The rest of the beans and sweet potatoes should be ok sealed from the oxygen for a couple of days when I’ll be able to eat them.

Later in the evening, after having taught a class and gone to my friends house for an evening of playing cards, I came home and I had one of my sundaes with yogurt, acai smoothie mix, blueberries, kiwis, bananas, walnuts and chia seeds. And I also had some extra cashews and a slice of Ezekiel bread.